Prohibition: Media

United States history [1920–1933]

Videos

How Prohibition led to the invention of the Caesar salad
Caesar salad has nothing to do with the Roman emperor. It was actually invented in...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Travel back to the Prohibition era and watch President Franklin Roosevelt sign the beer bill into law
“To drink or not to drink,” a dilemma that divided the United States from the ratification...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Prohibition
New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (right) watching agents pour...
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-123257)
anti-Prohibition protest
A protest against Prohibition in New York.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Prohibition Party
National Prohibition Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1892.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-59668)
Al Capone
Chicago crime boss Al Capone, c. 1935.
MPI/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Public Enemy
James Cagney and Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy (1931).
© 1931 Warner Brothers, Inc.; photograph from a private collection
Prohibition
Two men pouring alcohol into a sewer during Prohibition in the United States.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
wrecked car with cases of moonshine during Prohibition in the United States
Policeman standing alongside a wrecked car and cases of moonshine, November 1922.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C (LC-USZ62-96757)